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The photographs in Remembering Marvin Hamlisch were taken by noted photographer Len Prince, a dear friend of the Hamlisches. Prince’s work captures the power of Hamlisch’s music and its impact on the musical theater world. On view through September 6, 2015.

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Charles Kleibacker Film Festival

The fourth annual Charles Kleibacker Film Festival celebrates the life and accomplishments of a style icon with a weekend of free films honoring all things fashion. Thursday August 20, 2015 – Saturday August 22, 2015.

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Charles Kleibacker Film Festival

The fourth annual Charles Kleibacker Film Festival celebrates the life and accomplishments of a style icon with a weekend of free films honoring all things fashion. Thursday August 20, 2015 – Saturday August 22, 2015.

For Immediate Release: July 29, 2015 Media Contact: Nancy Colvin, 614.629.0303 nancy.colvin@cmaohio.orgCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART DEBUTS NEW ACQUISITIONS(Columbus, OH) The Columbus Museum of Art today announced the acquisition of four works of art that will make their CMA debut during the Museums Community Grand Opening, presented by PNC Arts Alive, on Sunday, October 25 celebrating the completion of the Museums new wing. The works, all by contemporary artists, span several artistic media including photography, painting, sound sculpture and video. Three Screens for Looking at Abstraction, CMAs first work by American artist Josiah McElheny, is an installation comprised of three large, faceted screens made from mirrors and translucent projection cloth. An abstract film program is digitally projected onto each of these objects simultaneously. The films bounce off the mirrors in different directions and produce kaleidoscopic movement and sound. Film program can be changed each time the work is shown, creating an ever-changing experience. McElheny has had solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Whitechapel Gallery, London, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work can be found in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tate Modern, and the Whitney Museum. Study for Strings is the first sound sculpture in CMAs collection and the first work the Museum has acquired by Scottish artist and Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz. Study for Strings is based on Jewish composer Pavel Haass 1943 work Study for Strings, written while he lived in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The music became the soundtrack for a Nazi propaganda film illustrating the benevolent treatment of the Jews interned there. Haas was later moved to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he was killed. Study for Strings was first presented at dOCUMENTA (13), a twice-a-decade festival in Kassel, Germany. It was hailed by Gregory Volk as, one of the most searing and entrancing artworks Ive encountered anywhere, and later shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The CMA installation will be experienced while walking down a birch-lined, flagstone path in the Museums new sculpture garden. CMA is the first American museum to add a work by Carissa Rodriguez, artist and director of Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New York, to its collection. Its Symptomatic/What Would Edith Say is from a series of photographs of artists tongues that have detailed diagnoses by Rodriguezs acupuncturist scrawled across them in black marker. Acupuncture and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) use the tongues appearance to diagnose overall internal health, and Rodriguez uses that connection to explore the physical demands of being an artist as well as the play between surface and depth. Rodriguez was recently featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and will have a solo exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco this winter. The earliest work in the group, Untitled (January 12), is a significant abstract painting by modernist painter Paul Feeley. Feeleys paintings and sculptures are characterized by bright colors and undulating forms that are often poised between representation and abstraction. Feeley held an influential position as a professor at Bennington College in Vermont, where he helped make the school an ambitious cultural outpost in the 1950s and sixties. He organized or co-organized important early exhibitions of Jackson Pollock, David Smith, and Barnett Newman, and was himself honored with a 1968 memorial retrospective at the Solomon S. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Imperfections by Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 19541966 will be one of the inaugural exhibitions in CMAs new wing.The exhibition was organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, in partnership with the Columbus Museum of Art. It is co-curated by Tyler Cann, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Columbus Museum of Art and Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator Emeritus at the Albright-Knox. The Columbus Museum of Art creates great experiences with great art for everyone. The Greater Columbus Arts Council, Nationwide Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, and the Henry D. and Carol B. Clark, Hermann Vorys, Fred Sands Family, Sayre Charitable, and James W. Overstreet funds of The Columbus Foundation provide ongoing support. CMA and the Museum Store are open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, and until 8:30 pm every Thursday. The Palette Express is open Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 am 4:00 pm. Museum admission is $12 for adults; $8 for seniors and students 6 and older; and free for members, children 5 and younger. Admission is free for all on Sundays. CMA Free Sundays presented by Arts Alive is made possible through a grant from PNC Foundation. For additional information, call 614.221.4848 or visit www.columbusmuseum.org. # # # ]]>

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